SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Establishment, Incorporation and Constitution of Incorporated Friendly Societies

Register of members

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1

Every incorporated friendly society shall maintain a register of the names and addresses of the members of the society.

2

The register shall be kept at the registered office or at such other place or places as the committee of management thinks fit.

3

A society which was previously a registered friendly society need not enter in the register the address of a member who became a member before its incorporation while it has no address for him and his whereabouts are unknown.

4

Where it appears to an incorporated friendly society that the registered address shown in the register for a member is no longer current, the society—

a

may remove that address from the register; and

b

need not enter in the register an address for that member while it has no address for him and his whereabouts are unknown.

5

If an incorporated friendly society contravenes sub-paragraph (1) above, the society shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

6

For the purposes of this Act “registered address”, in relation to a member of an incorporated friendly society, means—

a

the address shown in the register mentioned under this paragraph, except in a case where paragraph (b) below applies;

b

where the member has requested that communications from the society be sent to some other address, that other address.